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Show ACCOUNTING BUREAU WILL BEJT OGDEN First Step Taken Toward Change in Arrival of Manager Man-ager F. E. Lewis. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN", July 3. The first stop in a ch3nge which will make Ogden the headquarters for the hotel and dining car department of the Union Pacific system was taken today with the arrival ar-rival of F. E. Lewis, general manager of that department, and some of his elerks from Omaha, Xeb. With Mr. Lewis's department also comes' the accounting ac-counting bureau for this bianh of the service, covering al lines of the Union 2acinc, Oregon Short Lino and Oregou-W Oregou-W A Vashjpgton Railroad & Navigation com- panv. Although the accounting bureau will be under jurisdiction of Mr. Lewis, it will be in direct charge of Fred X. 11 ess, former Ogden resident, who has hepn in New York until recentlv. G. E. Bissonnet, assistant comptroller of the Union Pacific- system, is in this city to superintend the establishment of the central accounting bureau. Both the officer of Mr. Lewis and his assistants and the accounting bureau & ie to be located in the commissary building, south of the union station building. Fred W. Gentsch, snperin-tendent snperin-tendent of hotels and dining cars on the O. L., will continue to have offices in the same building. The office of 0. A. Vhite, auditor under Mr. Gentsch for the 0. S. L. department, will be discontinued on account of the central S auditing bureau to be located here. Mr. White has accepted a position as ' secretary of the Ogden Union Railway ' & Depot company, and has moved his office to the main station building, affording af-fording additional space in the commissary commis-sary building for the new departments. The removal of the hotel and dining car departments of the three railroads from Omaha to this city means the adoption ad-option of about thirty persons to Ogden Og-den 's list of railroad employees. About twenty persons will be employed in the offices in charge of Mr. Lewis, and it -is expected that eight or ten assistants -will he employed under Mr. Hess in the central accounting bureau. |